CAREER OFFER, CHRISTIAN AID KENYA, MONDAY 20, DECEMBER 2010

SENIOR COMPLIANCE OFFICER, AFRICA
BASED: NAIROBI, KENYA, WITH SOME TRAVEL IN AFRICA

A significant part of Christian Aid’s income in Africa comes from government and institutional donors. In this important role you will ensure that grants and contracts comply with donor regulations and requirements and thereby play a key part in ensuring that funds are directed to the world’s poorest people.
Working as part of the compliance team within the programme funding division, and based in Nairobi, you will play an important role in ensuring that Christian Aid is in compliance with the requirements and regulations of its key institutional and government donors in Africa, like DFID, the EC and USAID. You will be developing tools and resources to help Christian Aid staff and partners understand and share their experience of managing donor rules and requirements, and providing support to staff across Africa to provide assurance that Christian Aid can deliver on its donor-funded grants and contracts.
You will need to be able to demonstrate experience and understanding of the rules and requirements of grant and contract funding from government and large institutional donors. You will be systematic, have great attention to detail and a professional finance background with experience analysing complex budgets, financial reports and contracts. You will be an excellent communicator and networker and be experienced in developing and delivering training, both to individuals and groups of people from a wide range of backgrounds. You will also need to understand and appreciate some of the challenges of working in Africa and be able to find innovative and effective ways of communicating and providing support at a distance.
Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions: Using the guidance notes may help you formulate your answers.
EFFECTIVENESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Describe your experience of working with institutional donors.
What are some of the key areas of compliance?
How do reporting requirements of different donors differ?
COMMUNICATION AND INTERACTION
Tell us about how you have successfully shared information or trained people on a complex and detailed subject with a diverse audience.
What information where you communicating to whom?
How did you try to tailor your communication to achieve its purpose?
How did you ensure that people had understood and were able to put in practice what they had learnt?
INTERNAL AUDIT, RISK AND POLICY
Describe a situation where you have identified and mitigated financial risks for an organisation or a project in a complex environment.
How were the risks identified?
Initiative
Tell us about a time when you used your initiative to take the most of an opportunity or address a problem.
What opportunity/problem did you see?
How did you act on it?
Were you successful?
Why?
We value the contribution each person makes to the success of our organization, so you can expect a range of rewards and benefits that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.
Download the role profile (64 KB pdf)http://www.christianaid.org.uk/Images/Senior%20compliance%20officer%2C%20Africa%20PFD-039-JG_tcm15-51906.pdf
TO APPLY
Please download an application pack and email your completed International application form to:   nairobi@christian-aid.org quoting the reference number.
Please note that CVs will not be accepted and that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
JOB REFERENCE: PFD/039/JG
CLOSING DATE: 5pm, Friday 7 January 2011
INTERVIEW DATE: Week commencing 24 January 2011
Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.